Half-Life 2 Approaching

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  Goddamn, yes!!!! http://www.camtone.ca/pics/photo.php?pDate=2003-12-29&pName=2003-12-29-04.jpg : stelth
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    Hmm, what cars was this included in? I bought a 9800 Pro and never got one. : Phreakin
    • I got it with my 9800XT. : stelth
    • It was introduced with XT models. (I know... I bought a 9600 Pro 2 weeks before) : P-Squid
    • it was an XT promotion iirc. : Turd Ferguson
    • Mine came with my retail Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro from AllStarShop. I've seen several reviews of this re... : nachowray
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      I got my HL^2 coupon and it came with a 9600se. This was from Christmas of last year, I think. : rotten element
      • Yeah, i got one with a 9600se late last year too. : trevis
    • I got one with an aiw 9600 pro : jrsX
    • My 9600XT came with one. : Entity
  • awww SWEET you get to wait 4-6weeks AFTER the game comes out to get your free copy in the mail. : ilem0n
• Sept 10th. : swansong
• "Just a trinket"..."tide me over until release" was what I thought about TFC and TF2 :( : reign27
• Awesome. I bought one of these (with the necessary stuff like a copy of the receipt and the upc code) a f... : king_darius
• oh... thats HOT! : crunchtime4l
• Yay, I don't have to waste money on CZ! Now where did I put that voucher.... : rotten element
• i got a 9600se ONLY for the coupon. :) : r1cola
• Gabe Newell is a fat, lying sack of crap. I wonder about the mental health of anyone who still listens t... : NeoMoose

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  Yeah, December 3004 : el_bandito
  • winner =) : bobbywannadance
• Minus two weeks on HL2 release if you count the steam deal. : snuff
• no. : virus
• July 4th, 2006. : mr3dmax
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  The dog ate the schedule, the sun is in our eyes and we weren't ready. Do over! :) : GeorgeB3DR
  • No backsies! : king_darius
  • Shit.... Just take a break from it and do a new Balls of Steel game. ;) : mr3dmax
  • i was right then, december 2010 : AMikaboshi
  • So I guess you guys are a gonna take a couple months off to play Doom 3 and Half-Life 2... that's okay as... : tommysgun
  • whatever happened to that 7,000 online, 5,000 posts, we get a pixalated screenshot of Duke's crotch in DN... : handofthrawn
  • I probably will replay Doom 3 twice and Halflife 2 3 times, but I'm sure I will replay DNF 10 times. : dnurk
• Shoot the dog buy some sunglasses & take uppers. : frosty
• DA DA DA DAAAA! VAPORWARE MAN! : gravity
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  dnf will be out february 31. i'm sure it will ! : sho yu
  • At least DNF never gave a release date. They always said "when its done" You all realize that DNF is d... : TheNarcis

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• When I get DOOM 3. That will have my attention so waiting for HL2 will be null =) : dragocore
• Yeah, I hope is not some stupid publisher pressing them to release the game before it's ready >:( : clubboi
• I remember a rumor a few weeks ago on the something awful boards about it being released in September. : snuff
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  rushing it out? they said it would be beta before E3 and here we are three months later with no news. It ... : veggie
  • Yeah I know. The timing just seems a little too convenient. It's got the stink of publisher meddling. : Silent Bob
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  Shipping right next to Doom III would hurt HL2's sales, not help them. A lot of casual gamers only have e... : cdbeckman
  • The thing is these marketing losers need to get off the oooh lets try to steal fame and sales shit. Ev... : TheNarcis

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• Whoa, whoa, whoa sonny. They have to release Half-Life 2 first. : nachowray

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• ...You're not the first? : nachowray
• Which September? : protozone

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  Which means we have 6 more months till its out in stores!! : rotten element
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    Trolltastic! : nachowray
    • M-m-monster Troll! : protozone

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  too bad they are not though. I have seen HL2 benches and Nvidia beats ATI. : intoxicant
  • ATI will come back with a vengance though. I prefer Nvidia myself. : mr3dmax
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    Oh, you mean the ones from the stolen build that stupid-ass Russian site posted? Yeah, goldmine. : nachowray
    • i'm taking bets that the numbers stay pretty much the same in the final build. $10 minimum : mc-fine
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    This ati's voodoo 5 demise missed the boat. : frosty
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      What? You mean, the Voodoo is dead? ;) : mr3dmax
      • can't be a friend still runs the SLI : nurall
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  That would be awesome... then the HL2 fanboys can be ATI fanboys and the D3 fanboys can be NV fanboys yip... : TheNiXXeD
  • who gives a crap just play the damn game. come on people :) : mystifier

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• ahahahhahahahah : osiris_brad

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  I'm not sure I'd call it "assraping," even at. At 1024x768, which is a bit closer to where most people w... : nachowray
  • *"...even at 1600x1200." : nachowray
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    Gee ATi fanboys screemed assrape when the 9800XT was barely beating the 5950 in a lot of benchmarks by on... : TheNarcis
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      I don't really care either way, I just think "assrape" is an unnecessary, inapplicable way to describe it... : nachowray
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        The 6800Ultra was 30% faster than the X800XT-PE in the top configuration... How is that not an assrape, e... : bbq gibs
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          I guess I'm just not into homoerotic metaphors. To each his own. : nachowray
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            What do you mean? You can assfuck a girl! :-p : TheNarcis
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              It certainly shows you where his mind is at doesn't it Narcis? : bbq gibs
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                *shudders* :-P : TheNarcis
                • Maybe Gangraped would be less offensive. : capt tripps
          • Why? Did that word remind you of gay pr0n and gave you an inopportune hard-on at work? I just kiddin y... : bbq gibs
    • Moral of the story: fanboys suck. : Vorlonesque
• Except he said it LONG BEFORE HardOCP's article went up. : menkey
• Haha, Dont worry, Nvidia has always been better at running OpenGl then ATI. ATI's cards will run halflif... : scrub6969

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  CS Source doesn't have anything large new features except better graphics doesn't it? : lord_omega
  • That and the new physics system, and I'm assuming they'll take this opportunity to make minor bug fixes a... : nachowray
• my Level 50 Rogue has pwn3d all of u that didnt get in. What a statement. Intelligent and relevant! ... : judge
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  Please take you level 50 stick by the hand and pull it out of your IQ 50 ass. After that jump on your don... : [7]kami
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    I like the WoW guy better than the CS amnesiacs. "What year is it? Is it still 1999?"... CS:Source? Just ... : jemafinch
    • Wow, bitter much? If you play a game that you enjoy and have fun, but someone else hates it, you are a BA... : TrptJim
    • I don't think you got the joke. I meant his kind of posting was childish so he should move to the CS-foru... : [7]kami
• how many bugs did you actually submit to blizzard? 0? thought so. : jzzyos

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• Agreed. Gabe shouldn't have commented about this at all. : nomaad
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  when you are 40 million in the red..you'd do anything. : swansong
  • HELLO 3DR! hello 3dr. hello 3dr... "Why'd you say that three times?" "I didn't..." etc etc ... : KinetiK

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  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. : brushbaron
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    "There's an old saying in Tennessee â€Ââ€� I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee â€Ã... : jake
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      HAHAHAHAH, I've seen that clip. Was it in farenheit 9/11? I can't remember.... : scrub6969
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        Yep. Last scene of the movie. "Mr. Bush, for once, we agree." : Ratsofatsorat
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          One of the only moments that was not fiction in that whole movie. : dengar65
          • none of the hilarious clips of Bush in that movie where fiction. : scrub6969
    • Now.. excuse me while I eat a pretzel : snuff
• Fool me thrice? : rabbit003

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  Gabe Newell gonna ride you like a pony, does that count? : Maddog_Delphi97
  • you mean SQUASH him : mulu

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  riiigghhhhtttt I never bought an ati card because of their crappy drivers. : frosty
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    Yay, the irrelevant old pre-CATALYST complaint. I never wear my seatbelt because you I heard can't g... : nachowray
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      Bullshit... They have a new driver release every damn month because something doesnt work right. Dont... : TheNarcis
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        ok there, and nvidia doesn't update its detonator drivers often maybe? Don't get me started on driver che... : mystifier
        • Get what started... The thing is ATi pointed the finger FIRST at nVidia, when they had guilt ALL ALONG... : TheNarcis
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    by rigging I mean 'fudging' the drivers, (you know, like how ATI rigged its drivers to preform better in ... : pvtmike
    • Your right, they just lied to the general public and never had a true tri-linear and "optomized" it to ru... : TheNarcis

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  You are correct, sir. However when that will be isn't known. I think they'll offer it after HL2's release... : mystifier
  • A little bird told me that the port was taken along with the stolen build and played almost all the way t... : nachowray

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• I dont think he heard you, shout louder : Snifter_42

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  "when its done" is retarded. They should say "We have programmers and artists working on a computer game ... : snuff
  • Yeah, that's much simpler than saying WID. ;) : mr3dmax
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  Doom 3: When it's done. Half-Life 2: When it's overdone. : jemafinch
  • hense the origonal being practically bug free and detailed to the end. Perfectionists... sucky at release... : cdbeckman

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  I still thought it was weird, and cool at the same time that they made a whole new level not in the actua... : cdbeckman
  • I still think that, rather then I still thought that... yes. Grammar is for the weak : cdbeckman

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• What's the vegas odds? I've got Doom3, HL2, and WoW in the Trifecta... I'd go for the superfecta but ... : jemafinch

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  what your address, i'll send a squad of strippers... : Ukrainian Thunder
  • You made me laugh out loud at work. Thanks JERK!!!! ;) =D : bobbywannadance
• I'm mailing you a cookie. Its enroute! : tomservo
• I <3 you? : clubboi
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  aww do you want a sympathy informative? : snuff
  • what I want is credit where credit is due! yes a sympathy informative would be nice : pvtmike
• Uh hi there. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8203198 Don't get so worked up about it. : Carnivac
• thanks for trying to help spread news here. :) please email stuff like that to news@shacknews though. ... : Steve Gibson
• FUCK CREDIT. That is all. : jason e
• what is your full name and mailing address? (and social security number) maybe steve will transfer ... : virus
• A free mercury account for this man is in order. : bbq gibs
• Blues News had that up before shack, so maybe they got it from there. /wink : TheNarcis

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• No, you don't need the card installed, but read the instructions on the voucher and make sure you follow ... : nachowray

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  Hardwear... you mean like athletic supporters? : nachowray
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    I was thinking like the head gear for braces people had to wear when they slept back in the day. To Fr... : lord cecil
    • Actually, to be fair, the news is a couple days old - we've been talking about it on the Halflife2.net fo... : nachowray
• Most likely means zero game stopping and/or serious bugs. : Fred Garvin
• Yeah, duh, of course he's talking about bugs they know about. And if you're going to go down that route, ... : SpiderMonkey
• he's talking about known bugs. anything that comes up after shipping will most likely be taken care of A... : Habib
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  Really? How buggy was HalfLife? I don't remember, honestly, but being a one of the companies everyone loo... : bobbywannadance
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    well it erased your harddrive if you uninstalled it, so.... : kevp
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      no wait, haha, was that Myth2? : kevp
      • No, that was most definately HL... it cleared the directory directly above the install so if it was C:\Ga... : TheNiXXeD
• Show/ship stopper bugs. : jake

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  yeah things are pretty negative in here, but given valve sticking to a release date until like a week bef... : Steve Gibson
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    Yea, I'll be happy if the game is good. Honestly, I hope it gets delayed again. This may be a little ... : jason e
    • Agreed completely. Two months between such huge titles would be nice. : Silent Bob

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  Hmm... probably because it wasn't? : nachowray
  • That's what I'm getting at. :) : jason e
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  My guess would be July 4th 2006. : mr3dmax
  • Sorry, wrong thread. : mr3dmax

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• No. No, you are not rite. Just... no. : nachowray

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  this goes out to you, #4. : snuff
  • Noted and thanks, strange how it's cheaper to get the actual physical game with everything instead of buy... : MrLonghair
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  i wonder how many petabytes of data you have to download... or maybe it downloads in background while you... : Ukrainian Thunder
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    yes, you have to enter the CD-Key, then it registers that CD-Key to your account on steam. : snuff
    • steaming cool : Ukrainian Thunder

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  I don't know, but that quote was a bad move either way. I'm anticipating a bunch of fuckers screaming bl... : nachowray
  • That way lie dragons... in other words, people will always complain about something. Then agian there'... : spikeyknees
• bugs they and their beta testers can find... : Ukrainian Thunder